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Join Windows® clients to the domain and manage them transparently. No disruption to your users, no user or device CALs. Comes with industry-standard SMTP and POP3/IMAP mail server built upon the most established technologies and protocols. Guarantees reliable and secure Internet access and helps to manage all the basic network infrastructure services. Receive software updates until the EOL-date of each version and get support when needed. Zentyal offers an easy to use Windows Server® alternative. It comes with native compatibility with Microsoft Active Directory® allowing you to join Windows® clients to the domain and manage them easily, causing no disruption to your users. Zentyal includes the industry-standard SMTP and POP3/IMAP mail servers built upon the most established technologies and protocols. Gives you the opportunity to deploy Zentyal as a mail server, domain & directory server with mail or all-in one server.

Vesta core is written in bash. It is native programming language of linux server administrators. They see dreams in bash, thats why vesta grows so fast. Server admins are those people who know how to fix problems and how server inner structure should look like. Bash and gpl allows Vesta to fix problems and implement new features very fast. Built in firewall resolves all common issues. It’s packed with enterprise-class features. For example it comes with smart filters for various services (apache, exim, ssh, etc) in order to ban any host IP address that makes too many login attempts. You can manage backups the way you want to. You can exclude some files or directories or specific account or even domain. Number of copies or backup frequency can be easily changed. By default you get 3 backups created by cron job at night.